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Security staff member Zach Cotter, 28, was caught on camera hitting Karen Ivery, 37, at Target in Blue Ash, Hamilton County, Ohio, in October last year after she grew 'aggressive' with a manager. CCTV footage from the store shows Mr Cotter intervening after an altercation broke out with a manager when Ms Ivery claimed she wanted the store to pay for her purchases in 'reparations'. Startling CCTV video footage shows Mr Cotter punching Ms Ivery in the face, causing her to fall to the floor According to the manager's statement after the incident, a cashier called her over when Ms...

If Alex Jones who is perceived as a pro-Trump and an anti-establishment figure is penalized for spreading misinformation but the Democrats establishment loyalists who peddle insane conspiracy theories are honored with Pulitzer prizes something is gravely wrong.

Two would-be robbers who were fatally shot at a liquor store in the Gresham neighborhood Saturday night have been identified as a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy, authorities said. Keshawn Marzette, 15, of the 8300 block of South Throop Street, and William Larson, 17, of the same address, were pronounced dead on the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Autopsies Sunday determined both died of multiple gunshot wounds and their deaths were classified as homicides, the office said. The two were shot to death by a store employee about 8:30 p.m. when they tried to rob...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Police in Charlotte are unraveling a home invasion and burglary that ended with a 15-year-old suspect shot to death on a nearby street. The Charlotte Observer reported Wednesday that police have not charged 76-year-old C.L. McClure in Marcus Fluker's death. Police say four teens entered McClure's home Saturday. McClure was bound with duct tape and his wife held at gunpoint. The robbers left with some jewelry and a wallet.

An intended rape victim shot and killed her attacker this morning in Cape Girardeau when he broke into her home to rape her a second time, police said. The 57-year-old woman shot Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun when he broke through her locked basement door. Click Here! The woman told police he was the same man who raped her several days earlier. Officials do not intend to seek charges against her. In the first incident, the woman heard glass breaking in her basement about midnight on Saturday. She went to leave...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin has been executed by lethal injection, according to Texas prison officials. Jose Ernesto Medellin was put to death for his part in the gang rape and murder of two Texas girls. Corrections spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said Medellin died at 9:57 CT. The U.S. Supreme Court denied the last-ditch appeal of a Mexican national on Texas' death row late Tuesday, paving the way for him to be executed for a pair of brutal slayings, state corrections officials said. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said about 9:15 p.m. that the court...

Rape victim kills attacker. Threat to also go after daughter, 6, spurs bloody struggle: He came to her house wearing a ski mask and carrying a shotgun. He beat the woman, police say, and raped her. But when the woman's attacker — an old high school friend she had spurned — threatened to rape her 6-year-old daughter, the woman went for a butcher knife. That prompted a violent back-and-forth struggle. She stabbed him. He stabbed her. They fought for perhaps as long as 20 minutes, rolling around on the kitchen floor of the woman's Cherokee County home. When it was...

LTC ALLEN B. WEST Breaking News! Lt. Col. Allen B. West, who faced criminal charges for firing his weapon to intimidate an Iraqi detainee into providing information about an upcoming assault on West's unit, has himself, dodged a bullet. LTC West's actions yielded critical information which enabled West and his soldiers to thwart the attack -- thus saving the lives of their fellow soldiers. It was and remains our position that LTC West's actions were justified. Indeed, President Bush, on his visit to Iraq Thanksgiving Day, said "In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us...

<p>COVINGTON, Wash. — A teenager who was tired of a marijuana growing operation next to his bedroom called authorities to have his father arrested, King County sheriff's deputies say.</p> <p>"The kid was being forced to sleep near where the drugs were growing," sheriff's Sgt. Greg Dymerski said. "We're talking about a 17-year-old being subjected to obvious felony offenses."</p>

Autopsy results for an Odessa man found bleeding on June 16 a block away from Mama’s Kitchen on Eighth Street died two days later from head injuries, according to an autopsy report made public Thursday. Police say the man apparently was attempting to burglarize Mama’s Kitchen at 1534 Eighth St. when he suffered a somewhat mysterious fatal injury. The man, Emiterio Rico, 36, suffered severe cuts on his arms and head, said Ector County Medical Examiner B.J. White. But the primary cause of death was blunt injuries to the head and extremities, White reported. “That means his head came in...

<p>A man who is accused of molesting children and fled Chandler three years ago was found beaten into a coma and impaled on cactus in Mexico.</p> <p>Mark Adam Younglove, 35, disappeared July 4, 1999, after neighbors confronted him with allegations of molesting their children. On Sept. 23, 1999, a Maricopa County grand jury indicted Younglove on 11 counts of sex crimes with children, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.</p>